Several months ago

[meteordust]

Government spokesperson: "There's no need to worry. We've got a lot of eggs in our basket."

Me: "... Wait, that's not how that metaphor works."

Narrator: "It was exactly how that metaphor works."

'Stuffed': how Australia's 'unconscionable' gamble on Covid vaccines backfired

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[ivyfic]

Thanks for the link. I've got a cousin in Melbourne (I'm in the US) who has been posting about her indecision between getting AZ or holding out for Pfizer--she got the AZ. So nice to see an analysis.

There is a part of me that's like--the right call would have been for Australia to give most of a billion dollars to a private corporation... I'm expecting there to be hearings into pharmaceutical companies when all this shakes out, but we're still clearly in pay whatever it takes to end this mode (which I 100% agree with).

[meteordust]

I hope your cousin in Melbourne is safe and well! I'm glad she was able to get vaccinated.

Yeah, sometimes there's no great choices, just trying to avoid the worst choices.